Against the background of the Middle-East conflict, bestselling author Stephen Coonts designs a spooky and credible scenario of a demonic plot. Arabian terrorists attack an American flattop in the Mediterranean and carry out a massacre. Day-to-day it becomes hell for the crew of the U.S.S. United States. Day-to-day the Middle-East is on the verge of a nuclear catastrophe. Against orders and on his own, US pilot Jake Grafton makes a suicidal commitment to avert the menacing inferno in the last second.